Crystal Castles at the Fox Theater, Oakland, April 27, 2013

Crystal Castles are as fiercely foreboding as modern electronic music gets. Live, though, frontwoman Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath turn their darkness into galvanizing light. SPIN captured, or tried to anyway, the duo at their recent show at Oakland’s Fox Theater.

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